Just to be clear I don't mean fired when I say "hit"... just that the talking heads will make a big deal of it.

My guess is Reid takes the hit for, among other things, some not-so-good use of his timeouts. Especially the last, one of the worst I've ever seen.

I decided to do this, too. No idea why.

Wouldn't be all that surprising to read an article like this about the U.S. should they land an Olympics any time soon.

He won't likely become the only QB to throw for 5k and 50, he already has.

A lot of the time in qualifying you never see teams with their best World Cup starting 11 out there anyway. So is it so bad that multiple teams from the same confederation will finally be playing each other with the best squad they can field? And I can't imagine having the U.S. and Mexico in the same group would hurt…

Being a human being with a frontal lobe I cannot stand Colin Cowherd.

Disclosure: Not a Mariners fan.

I agree, people are just going to bitch about the rankings then, but they already do now. So hey, it least its not both at that point.

It doesn't mean it can't happen. I know it's more difficult with group play, but take the NCAA tournament for example, underdogs advance all the time. It's not that I don't want to see an underdog sneak in (and this change wouldn't prevent that), I just think fairer is, well, fairer. There's always going to be…

Why don't they just draw this like most every other tournament? Separate the field into 4 groups, highest ranked 8, then the next 8, and so on, and then just fill it like normal seeding. 1, 16, 17, 32 - 2, 15, 18, 31 - 3, 14, 19, 30 - 4, 13, 20, 29 - 5, 12, 21, 28 - 6, 11, 22, 27 - 7, 10, 23, 26 - 8, 9, 23, 25

He's fishing and/or hunting soon?

The video seems to have worked. It's on Deadspin. Mission accomplished.

Alley-Whoops!

Solid trolling, my friend. I'm sure you're already aware that this catcher collision thing isn't a part of the history of baseball and is a much more recent phenomenon.

It's already illegal to block the plate. It's just not enforced.

Besides all the, ya know, hard-core evidence there is. Also, several studies back the philosophy that diet can alter DNA.

OK, that's more along the lines of what I thought. Just wanted to make sure there wasn't some interpretation that could lead the linesman to decide that might have been onside.

I don't understand the offside rule perfectly, but it looks like the Schalke 04 players' back foot is in the same position as the last Basel defender. Now I assumed that if the body was further up in general than the defenders that it was offside, but is it actually still considered onside if any part of their bodies…

It's going to be tough. But it's definitely possible for U.S. to advance out of this group. The only finish that would surprise me is one where Germany AND the U.S don't advance.